How can we slow the crumbling of western civilization?

Of course 'deplatforming works.' Fascism works. Totalitarianism works. Terrorism works. That's why people keep embracing such ideologies, even though our culture nominally considers them to be among the greatest of human evils.
In short, FORCE works. Persuasion is difficult, frustrating, and often ineffective. Introducing any amount of force to a system founded on principles of liberty, self-government, individual choice, and private ownership of capital will inevitably tip the scales. . .
The generation that holds most of our political, corporate, and media power was taught all their lives that fascism is the ultimate evil - but they sank very easily into a fascist system. Today they quiver with glee at using combined state/corporate power to crush dissent. . .
Developing and using coercive power has a powerful allure. People who think they have great wisdom and absolute moral stature, who view themselves as messiahs on a mission with time running out, will never settle for force-free systems that require the consent of the governed.
"Democracy" is always a train they ride until they reach their ideological destination, and then they hop off and dynamite the train behind them. They think a free republic whose citizens can say "no" will never get important things done quickly enough. Only coercion "works."
Of course, all of these people will howl with outrage if force is used against THEM. . . .

They're blind to how pervasive authoritarian tendencies can be.
@cenkuygur is complaining about the Dems' decision to have no Presidential debates, but that's a natural decision from folks who are gleeful about forcing Tucker Carlson out.
Everyone thinks the guillotine will never be used on them.

More Deplatforming and Censorship

Tucker Carlson is not the only person out there who has been the subject of "deplatforming" lately.

There are a couple of officials elected to local offices to whom I send links to articles and the occasional AoSHQ post. They often use these in social media communications with their constituents. They are not my representatives, but I know people in their districts. The first is a woman who is pretty "based". The second is a man who has a lot of the right ideas, but who works with the establishment more often. Both have responsibilities regarding K-12 education and the latter has responsibilities concerning state funding of university education.

The woman mentioned above had a rather harrowing experience recently when she gave a speech on a university campus about unfortunate developments in K-12 education. An LGBTQ+ advocacy group organized a protest against her and another speaker. It wasn't as bad as the recent protests in San Francisco and at Stanford, but still, there were amplified speeches outside the venue before the event even started. One of her professional colleagues spoke against her alleged positions (in the vaguest possible terms, though she mentioned "equity" several times), there was a lot of ridiculous chanting about "hate" and "fear" and a vile exhortation by a protest organizer to vote her out of office.

When it was time for the event, campus police allowed the protesters (now including people from MEChA, a group with a history of violence and intimidation at protests) to chant inside the room through megaphones for 8 minutes. "Fascists go home". They vowed to end the ability of people to express ideas they didn't like, "fascist" ideas, on campus. None of the "fascism" was ever described to a reporter. It was just name-calling. Then those who wouldn't be quiet were escorted out and the event was allowed to proceed. So at least there's that.

Anyway, in honor of my brave friend's experience, I thought it might be appropriate to share some links that those of us who may still feel some fondness for Western Civilization might find appropriate to pass on to certain individuals we know. Probably not to the most "woke", but to people who still have some reasoning capacity. It's the weekend.

John Hayward again:

A generation after the supposed triumph of classical liberalism at the "end of history," free speech exists nowhere on Earth as a matter of principle. Every single tech mogul's commitment to free speech evaporates when powerful authoritarians demand censorship.
Authoritarian foreign regimes know they only need to threaten blockage of Western social media services to make their management comply with censorship demands. Some push back harder than others, but in the end, they all cave. They can't afford to lose access to growing markets. . .
Domestically, we've seen government officials using economic leverage and ideological affinity to limit speech in collusion with their Little Partners in the private sector. . .

Equity vs. Merit

Heather MacDonald has written a new book on the poisonous influence of the concept of "equity" in our society today. The following interview, almost an hour long, is excellent. She offers many, many examples to back up the destructive power of replacing merit with equity.

No one is better than Heather MacDonald at expressing gratitude for the gifts of Western Civilization. And dismay that, say, younger university students are being deprived of these gifts.

At the end of the Q&A she offers a call to action. How to take action is left to others.

This 13 minute podcast by James Lindsay, When to Stand Up, is quite interesting, I think. I hesitate to direct people toward his Twitter feed. He's one of those people who could use a Twitter editor. Seriously. But his New Discourses site is valuable.

The podcast reminds us that the fight against Marxism is not going to get easier. There is an interesting review of how long it took the Maoists to take control in China. Plus a reminder not to over-react to the provocations of the Left, thus playing into their hands. Standing up doesn't have to be something dramatic. It can be as simple as becoming educated.

How to stand up is important. This is also true for Republicans on an institutional level, but it is going to take them a long time to figure that out. They are not doing real well at this time dealing with this kind of extortion in Montana and elsewhere. James Lindsay described (on Twitter) one strategy involving studies of why transgender ideology led to so many suicide attempts (among other steps).

Incidentally, Lindsay's friend, the Australian videographer Michael Nayna is doing a breakdown of his movie on the grievance studies hoaxes, if you know anyone who is into that kind of thing. These hoaxes were certainly one way to fight back. Did people pay attention?

In Defense of Merit in Science

Yesterday, a social media friend picked up this piece from the Journal of Controversial Ideas via Bari Weiss at The Free Press.

"Lysenko arises . . ."

This paper's authors-hardly a group of unknowns--say they first tried to publish the paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). But the journal's editors reportedly advised them to remove the word 'merit' from the title of the paper, which is simply titled: In Defense of Merit in Science. According to the journal's editorial board, 'This concept of merit. . . has been widely and legitimately attacked as hollow.' We urge you to read the whole paper here.
Bari Weiss

Abstract

Merit is a central pillar of liberal epistemology, humanism, and democracy. The scientific enterprise, built on merit, has proven effective in generating scientific and technological advances, reducing suffering, narrowing social gaps, and improving the quality of life globally. This perspective documents the ongoing attempts to undermine the core principles of liberal epistemology and to replace merit with nonscientific, politically motivated criteria. We explain the philosophical origins of this conflict, document the intrusion of ideology into our scientific institutions, discuss the perils of abandoning merit, and offer an alternative, human-centered approach to address existing social inequalities.

Imagine "Merit" being a CONTROVERSIAL IDEA!

Today, this piece hit the WSJ and Instapundit:

In some ways this new species of Lysenkoism is more pernicious than the old, because it affects all science--chemistry, physics, life sciences, medicine and math--not merely biology and agriculture. The government isn't the only entity pushing it, either. "Progressive" scientists promote it, too, along with professional societies, funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health and Energy Department, scientific journals and university administrators. When applying for openings as a university scientist today, job candidates may well be evaluated more by their record of supporting "social justice" than by their scientific achievements.

The authors of the Grievance Studies Hoaxes were right: The ideologies underlying these fields of studies are taking down our universities. And, as Glenn Reynolds notes, our other institutions. Professional societies, funding agencies, government, etc.

But never fear:

* * * * *

Story time

The "other kind" of extremist education in America

It would be best to read the whole thing, but this gives you a flavor of the piece:

https://t.co/eKmIDafIT7 pic.twitter.com/3oZi8tRb05
— Shelby Foote Appreciator⚓️ (@NoJesuitTricks) April 28, 2023

But in reality, Public Education is conversion therapy. "Education" has actually become a form of bawdy exhibitionism. Every wild idea imaginable is paraded in front of students. Children are transformed into voyeurs. Turned into victims. They aren't being educated, they are being assaulted.
These days kids are taught to list every injustice in society, but can scarcely name a single justice on the Supreme Court. They can tell you all about Martin Luther King Jr., but think that Martin Luther was his dear old doddering daddy. I suspect that they believe that Alexander Hamilton wrote musicals. And they wouldn't know Adam Smith from Adam's housecat. So when students know neither the basics of biology nor the rudimentary facts necessary to pass a citizenship test, we can safely call that a bad education. . .

Now, don't get me wrong. I am the product of a poor education, but poor education of another sort. I think pi is something that pairs well with ice cream, and I don't know a hypotenuse from a hippopotamus. Even so, there was precious little that I had to unlearn from my time in the classroom. Not once was I ever encouraged to trade my boot cut Wranglers for a prom dress so I could woo the quarterback.
When our local public school introduced "sex ed" in the 7th grade, my folks pulled me out and enrolled me in a Christian school. "It isn't rocket science anyway," my Grandaddy said. "People have been doing it with successful results for centuries without charts and graphs." Learning on the job seems to have worked fine until now. . .

Trinity Academy was so extreme that it affirmed absolutes in both math and morality. While it may be regrettable that I wasn't encouraged to read LGBTQ (letters without end, amen) poetry, I was expected to commit at least one third of the Psalter to memory.
We had gun racks in our trucks and knives in our pockets, but never a school shooting or stabbing.
We prayed before class, before meals, before tests, during chapel, at games, and after all sorts of failures and successes.
I graduated in a senior class of three from a Christian school tacked on to the tail-end of a country church and then went on to receive three degrees, including a PhD from one of Great Britain's ancient universities. All in all, I am quite thankful to have been the recipient of a poor education.

Thought about home schooling? Or a trustworth religious school?

Music

So Familiar

* * * * *

Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

* * * * *

Last week's thread, April 22, The Gods of the Copybook Headings -- Here and Now

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:11 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 first

Posted by: Reforger at April 29, 2023 11:13 AM (g8YAV)

2 I'll have to save this post for another day. Need to keep my anger level to a minimum today.

Posted by: Javems at April 29, 2023 11:23 AM (AmoqO)

3 Yonder

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2023 11:24 AM (Q4IgG)

4 th quarter

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 29, 2023 11:24 AM (17s+e)

5 Way late to this thread
Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2023 11:25 AM (xhxe8)

6 Remember when Leftists said cancel culture was a myth?

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2023 11:26 AM (xhxe8)

7 Mom taught me about Mao and others many, many moons ago. It has served me well.

Posted by: Infidel at April 29, 2023 11:27 AM (/0+YE)

8 That Education thread is brilliant - he is absolutely right, Public "Education" is now nothing but conversion therapy, indoctrination. That is why it can NOT be saved - it is too corrupt and evil at all levels. It must be destroyed utterly - after that, maybe something can be built out of the ashes.

I feel the same way about our entire system of government today. Some of the States are still on track and deserve to survive - but the Federal Level needs to die, and this country needs to break up. It no longer deserves to exist.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2023 11:29 AM (q3gwH)

9 Great stuff, K.T. Thanks.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 29, 2023 11:29 AM (Xrfse)

10 Hi, everybody!

Posted by: KT at April 29, 2023 11:30 AM (rrtZS)

11 How can we slow the crumbling of western civilization?

Do we want to slow it down? This Operation Warp Speed offensive the Left is mounting is shaking a lot of people awake.

Posted by: t-bird at April 29, 2023 11:30 AM (e2onP)

12 Of course 'deplatforming works.' Fascism works. Totalitarianism works. Terrorism works. That's why people keep embracing such ideologies, even though our culture nominally considers them to be among the greatest of human evils.
_________
That annoys me for the same reason Bush's post 9/11 speech did. There's an "ism" missing. Begins with a "C".

Why can't we say it?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 29, 2023 11:30 AM (TgBWG)

13 Neat song. Hill folk music tickles my Ulster Scot West Virginia roots.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at April 29, 2023 11:30 AM (T/Lqj)

14 "How can Western Civilization be saved"? Only in the way that Roman Civilization was "saved" in a few cities like Byzantium, and the monasteries in the West.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2023 11:31 AM (q3gwH)

15 How can we slow the crumbling of western civilization?

I have ideas, but they are totally unpopular, so they wouldn't be implemented at all.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2023 11:31 AM (9R40N)

16 In my business, we are frequently bombarded by people who think they're running things, but they really aren't.

They seem to ONLY focus on equity and diversity. It's all they ever talk about, and their pronouncements, when they come, are largely ignored. The do try to meddle in the day to day, but for the most part they are irrelevant.

So I guess we let them pretend they're in charge. I guess. They remain harmless. But I do often wonder what will happen if/when they start making demands. So far no one is insisting I put "my pronouns" in my email signature, but as trivial as that may seem, I intend, if they do, to merely say no.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 11:33 AM (3meCg)

17 Eeyore at April 29, 2023 11:30 AM

Lindsay says it. But I think "fascism" would irritate AOC. And it describes her public/private partnership plans.

Posted by: KT at April 29, 2023 11:33 AM (rrtZS)

18 I have ideas, but they are totally unpopular, so they wouldn't be implemented at all.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2023 11:31 AM (9R40N)

after the collapse, "popularity" won't matter, and things that were unthinkable will become everyday realities.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2023 11:33 AM (q3gwH)

19 I’m rested and ready to take Tucker’s spot.

Posted by: Trey Gowdy- FBI/CIA cocksucker of the highest order at April 29, 2023 11:34 AM (RC6uK)

20 after the collapse, "popularity" won't matter, and things that were unthinkable will become everyday realities.
Posted by: Tom Servo

My ideas hasten the collapse.
Slowing the crumbling doesn't fix anything.
Burn this bitch to the ground, permanently remove the dead weight and rebuild.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2023 11:36 AM (9R40N)

21 "How can Western Civilization be saved"? Only in the way that Roman Civilization was "saved" in a few cities like Byzantium, and the monasteries in the West.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2023 11:31 AM (q3gwH)

And not to turn this into the politics of this past week, but it seems to me America's only salvation (if I can use that word) is States' Rights. Places like Florida and Texas HAVE to be able to say no to Washington, and make it stick.

Which is why, if there are people in places like Florida and Texas... and several other states, it would be infinitely better if they just stay where they are, rather than try to go to Washington.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 11:36 AM (3meCg)

22 I have deplatformed all of the lame stream media.

I turned off my TV.

Ah, sanity, peace and quiet.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 29, 2023 11:37 AM (R/m4+)

23 Merit is a central pillar of liberal epistemology, humanism, and democracy.
______

No, it's not. The current claims about "merit" are baseless because it really isn't defined. It always comes down to either "people like me" or, for the more naive, "people who can game the system." Like GKC, I refuse to worship success, for the reasons Solomon gave, among others. It works only in artificially constructed tests, as in sports.

One bandwagon I'm not climbing on.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 29, 2023 11:38 AM (TgBWG)

24 Saw this comment elsewhere; "Musk oughta' "deplatform" Sandy Cortez using her exact language. Cite whatever bullshit the left typically spouts as cause. Then let her stew in her own juice."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2023 11:39 AM (Q4IgG)

25
Tucker Carlson is not the only person out there who has been the subject of "deplatforming" lately.

In Tucker's case it may turn out to be the greatest gift the left gave to conservatives. Scuttlebutt is NewsMax wants him, with check book open, and free rein. NewsMax is good right now, but Tucker could make them great. If you have not seen Tucker's recent speech at the Heritage Foundation you really should. It's about a half hour long.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 29, 2023 11:40 AM (enJYY)

26 Banjo music is happy music. Thanks for the lift KT.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 29, 2023 11:40 AM (AiZBA)

27 I do hope everyone here heard Tucker's two minute message the other day. There's a lot to be gleaned from what he was saying. It was a message loaded with meaning.

I only hope he's got good security, because they're not going to like what he does next.

And for those of you who want to see people like Crowder taken out, stop it. You may not like him or how he does what he does, but he's a warrior in this fight too.

The smear campaigns against these guys, and others, are happening precisely because they are threats. And just look at who is threatening them, if you want to know who the phonies and frauds are.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 11:40 AM (3meCg)

28 They've turned Might Makes Right on its head. They aren't mighty but rather taking advantage of the mighty who embraced Judeo-Christian principles of protecting the weak and established the all men are created equal philosophy.

It won't last .

Posted by: polynikes at April 29, 2023 11:42 AM (pF9jJ)

29 Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 11:40 AM (3meCg)

Crowder is mentally unstable.

Posted by: polynikes at April 29, 2023 11:44 AM (pF9jJ)

30 How do you slow or better, stop the crumbling of the West?

Purge the place of progressive filth and ensure they never attain ascendancy again.

Then return to the administration of our country using the original blueprint.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 29, 2023 11:44 AM (KATBx)

31 "How can Western Civilization be saved"?

Oh, I think I gave you a hint. Google me and 'lawyers'.

Posted by: Wm. Shakespeare at April 29, 2023 11:45 AM (amJF4)

32 Robespierre never thought he would be murdered too. Nor any of the other would-be dictators.

Posted by: setnaffa at April 29, 2023 11:45 AM (rZVTl)

33 Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2023 11:36 AM (9R40N)

Agree with this sentiment. The liberal fascists think popularity and the wielding of bureaucratic power are all that matters. Somewhat true, until the script flips, and it gets sporty.

They are ignorant and the sane portions of their movement won’t match our resolve. The fundamental question being what is the triggering event? Or is there one? Given a Minnesota rep is attempting to not just normalize pedophilia, but grant it special legislative protections.

Posted by: Cooldawg at April 29, 2023 11:46 AM (RC6uK)

34 Commie skank piece of shit.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 29, 2023 11:46 AM (9VBwF)

35 Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 11:40 AM (3meCg)

Crowder is mentally unstable.
Posted by: polynikes at April 29, 2023 11:44 AM (pF9jJ)

So are we all. Who cares.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 11:47 AM (xsLlg)

36 I had to attend Comcast's DEI meeting this last week. Midy Kaling was the featured speaker. All about crayon colors and pronouns. And it was streamed across several divisional offices. It would have made Kim Jung-Un blush.

Truly needless and fucking awful.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 29, 2023 11:47 AM (y/a4v)

37 21 And not to turn this into the politics of this past week, but it seems to me America's only salvation (if I can use that word) is States' Rights. Places like Florida and Texas HAVE to be able to say no to Washington, and make it stick.

Which is why, if there are people in places like Florida and Texas... and several other states, it would be infinitely better if they just stay where they are, rather than try to go to Washington.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 11:36 AM (3meCg)

The Covidian Age has made it absolutely unequivocally clear that states have the power to LOLGF the feds on important things, if they choose to use it. Blue states LOLGFed Trump, red states LOLGFed Biden. Totally agreed that strong governors are more important than presidents.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 11:47 AM (PZvjL)

38 From what I'm reading about Tucker, he hasn't been fired, just silenced. Fox is still paying him thru the rest of his contract, but not a lump sum. And his contract may have some sort of exclusivity clause that prevents him from broadcasting elsewhere.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, stay savory, morons! at April 29, 2023 11:48 AM (jTmQV)

39 Imagine the damage Tucker could do on twitter for $8 a month. If I were Elon, I would go so far as to pay his fee myself!

Posted by: t-bird at April 29, 2023 11:49 AM (ptElO)

40 From what I'm reading about Tucker, he hasn't been fired, just silenced. Fox is still paying him thru the rest of his contract, but not a lump sum. And his contract may have some sort of exclusivity clause that prevents him from broadcasting elsewhere.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, stay savory, morons! at April 29, 2023 11:48 AM (jTmQV)

If Stormie Daniels and Blassey Ford have shown us anything, nobody can be prevented from saying anything.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 11:50 AM (xsLlg)

41 Been a few radio and TV people who got let go but got a silence contract for a period.

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2023 11:53 AM (xhxe8)

42 I mean yeah, I get it, The Civil War Of Northern Aggression Between The States established a clear precedent that DC is always right and can do whatever it wants whenever it wants. But like all declining empires the American government has reached a point where it likes to make tyrannical demands but the functional implementation is largely paralyzed by generations of bureaucracy and incompetence. We see it all around us in everything from Covid mismanagement to the string of failed wars that define my generation's understanding of the world.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 11:54 AM (PZvjL)

43 I've known lotsa people in business like AOC and their downfall is usually comes when they start to buy into their own bullshit

My guess is AOC will run for mayor of NYC

she will claim she's got the formula to turn the shithole around

her failure will be entertaining

Posted by: REDACTED at April 29, 2023 11:54 AM (us2H3)

44 Tucker will get out of the current impasse with Fox - he's a lot smarter than they are. For now, he's moving slowly and holding his cards close to the vest, which is exactly what he should be doing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2023 11:55 AM (q3gwH)

45 But like all declining empires the American government has reached a point where it likes to make tyrannical demands but the functional implementation is largely paralyzed by generations of bureaucracy and incompetence. We see it all around us in everything from Covid mismanagement to the string of failed wars that define my generation's understanding of the world.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 11:54 AM (PZvjL)

It happens to all Imperial Capitols sooner or later. They become hopelessly corrupted and lose the empires that they depended on for their survival.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2023 11:57 AM (q3gwH)

46 Good morning, Horde. Drinking my first coffee of the day. The new terlit gleams in the en-suite a few steps to my left. Its moment of reckoning fast approaches.

Then my task is to back the Suburban into the side yard, and commence to take the cylinder heads off the engine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 11:57 AM (tkR6S)

47 Wear a mask! Wear two masks!!

Posted by: The experts at April 29, 2023 11:57 AM (DhOHl)

48 Western Society and Civilization is close to being lost, if it is not lost already.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 29, 2023 11:58 AM (pVWRI)

49 Tucker will get out of the current impasse with Fox - he's a lot smarter than they are. For now, he's moving slowly and holding his cards close to the vest, which is exactly what he should be doing.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Anyone that signs a non compete clause is dumb.
You want me to not compete? Beat the other competitor's offer.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 29, 2023 11:59 AM (1x9G1)

50 Then my task is to back the Suburban into the side yard, and commence to take the cylinder heads off the engine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 11:57 AM (tkR6S)

blown gasket? valve job?

Posted by: BignJames at April 29, 2023 12:00 PM (AwYPR)

51 "My guess is AOC will run for mayor of NYC"

My view is that sadly, I think she would probably win. We're that far lost in the wilderness.

Posted by: RM at April 29, 2023 12:01 PM (crXU+)

52 AOC supposedly has a degree in economics. Only thing I can figure is the economics of destruction.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:02 PM (ynpvh)

53 51 "My guess is AOC will run for mayor of NYC"

My view is that sadly, I think she would probably win. We're that far lost in the wilderness.

Posted by: RM at April 29, 2023 12:01 PM (crXU+)

She could be the Duke of New York!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:03 PM (ynpvh)

54 50 Then my task is to back the Suburban into the side yard, and commence to take the cylinder heads off the engine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 11:57 AM (tkR6S)

blown gasket? valve job?

Posted by: BignJames at April 29, 2023 12:00 PM (AwYPR)

If you read between the lines...
blow~~n gasket? valve~~ job?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:04 PM (ynpvh)

55 Everyone thinks the guillotine will never be used on them.
--------

Fact Check: True

Posted by: Robespierre at April 29, 2023 12:04 PM (+apjR)

56 55 Everyone thinks the guillotine will never be used on them.
--------

Fact Check: True

Posted by: Robespierre at April 29, 2023 12:04 PM (+apjR)

Naw, I figure I'll be in one eventually. Or a firing squad.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:05 PM (ynpvh)

57 https://is.gd/jrtq3k

CT Surgeon John Calhoon, as outgoing president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons was recently pilloried for invoking "merit" as a valid metric for selecting trainees into surgical residencies. His actual words included:
- Affirrmative Action is not equal opportunity
- The best metric is simply whether somebody does good

For these relatively anodyne comments he was labeled a "racist" and also was thrown under the bus by the STS governing board.

At the level of highly skilled professions such as heart surgeon, airline pilot, etc. merit, in the sense of demonstrated competence absolutely should be a determining factor. Opportunity operates on the entry level, but surviving the rigors of study, knowledge, judgment and technical skill ultimately fall on the individual's innate capability. It cannot be gifted regardless of skin color, genital configuration or nepotism.

If you've been given an opportunity but have not attained competence or better yet, excellence, I don't want you operating on my heart valve.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2023 12:05 PM (ykeLU)

58 Tucker could take on a pseudo-name and at least start writing again. I'm hoping that he has good lawyers so he can join the broadcast world again. He should have read the fine print in his present contract.

OR have someone like Newsmax buy out the rest of his contract with Fuxs.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2023 12:06 PM (BdMk6)

59 blown gasket? valve job?
Posted by: BignJames at April 29, 2023 12:00 PM (AwYPR)

Blown gasket, for sure. Not sure if heads or block are warped. Will check with a straightedge once the heads are off. What happened: a plastic tee in one of the heater hoses broke, lost all the coolant, and overheated.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 12:06 PM (tkR6S)

60 I was talking about my older child and all the bad decisions he's made, and was asked,
"If you could do it all over again, you'd get it right, yes?"
I said, "No, I'd make some of the same mistakes and a host of new ones".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:06 PM (ynpvh)

61 Speaking truth is a radical act ic resistance.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 29, 2023 12:06 PM (ojLvW)

62
Good morning, Horde. Drinking my first coffee of the day. The new terlit gleams in the en-suite a few steps to my left. Its moment of reckoning fast approaches.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 11:57 AM

Getting ready to bolt down a toilet after a recent floor replacement I looked around and there was a box. With a wax seal in it. All right, pick up the toilet again. I'm sure you remembered.

Unless you wanna recreate the Great Flood in Atlanta Election night 2020.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 29, 2023 12:06 PM (enJYY)

63 62
Good morning, Horde. Drinking my first coffee of the day. The new terlit gleams in the en-suite a few steps to my left. Its moment of reckoning fast approaches.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 11:57 AM

Getting ready to bolt down a toilet after a recent floor replacement I looked around and there was a box. With a wax seal in it. All right, pick up the toilet again. I'm sure you remembered.

Unless you wanna recreate the Great Flood in Atlanta Election night 2020.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 29, 2023 12:06 PM (enJYY)

I thought that was Tank Abrams plowing through a toilet or two...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:07 PM (ynpvh)

64 It's pretty much impossible to operate in the white collar world without signing a non-compete contract. That said, the definition of competition is very easily lawyered, especially if the contract defines it very broadly. And at least in Minnesota I've been told by my lawyers that getting a noncompete case all the way through court is really hard.

Like, if you're an engineer who designs 31 sprocket widgets for the Derpomatic 5000, they could get you if you went to another company to design 31 sprocket widgets that are compatible wtih the Derpomatic 5000. But they can't do shit if the contract just says the area of competition is something vague like "manufacturing" and you start designing 46 sprocket widgets for the F-19 Flying Moron.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 12:08 PM (PZvjL)

65 58 Tucker could take on a pseudo-name and at least start writing again. I'm hoping that he has good lawyers so he can join the broadcast world again. He should have read the fine print in his present contract.

good evening, this Peter Tucker

Posted by: REDACTED at April 29, 2023 12:09 PM (us2H3)

66 64 It's pretty much impossible to operate in the white collar world without signing a non-compete contract. That said, the definition of competition is very easily lawyered, especially if the contract defines it very broadly. And at least in Minnesota I've been told by my lawyers that getting a noncompete case all the way through court is really hard.

Like, if you're an engineer who designs 31 sprocket widgets for the Derpomatic 5000, they could get you if you went to another company to design 31 sprocket widgets that are compatible wtih the Derpomatic 5000. But they can't do shit if the contract just says the area of competition is something vague like "manufacturing" and you start designing 46 sprocket widgets for the F-19 Flying Moron.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 12:08 PM (PZvjL)

It also depends on what State you're in. In Kali, some of the non-compete language is non-enforceable, but yes, just about every company I worked for (except when I worked for myself) had non-compete clauses, enforceable or not (with the statement that if any clause does not comport with law, the other clauses are still effective).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:09 PM (ynpvh)

67
Everyone thinks the guillotine will never be used on them.

__________

They imagine themselves standing on the Kremlin Wall, waving to the parade passing. They're surprised to find themselves in the Lubyanka.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 29, 2023 12:10 PM (MoZTd)

68 65 58 Tucker could take on a pseudo-name and at least start writing again. I'm hoping that he has good lawyers so he can join the broadcast world again. He should have read the fine print in his present contract.

good evening, this Peter Tucker

Posted by: REDACTED at April 29, 2023 12:09 PM (us2H3)

Avoid Pierre Delecto.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:10 PM (ynpvh)

69 Tucker could take on a pseudo-name and at least start writing again. I'm hoping that he has good lawyers so he can join the broadcast world again. He should have read the fine print in his present contract.

OR have someone like Newsmax buy out the rest of his contract with Fuxs.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2023 12:06 PM (BdMk6)

I don't get the impression he sees himself as being muzzled. Just navigating the legal course with precision and care. I really don't think he let Faux Nooz constrain him, and given that the evidence is that the Murdochs did this with little care, and possibly for personal reasons, I doubt they're going to be able to keep him silent for very long.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:10 PM (FbuqU)

70 Tucker could take on a pseudo-name and at least start writing again.

Or he can borough Bobby Valantine's fake nose and mustasch and go on TV under an assumed name LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 29, 2023 12:12 PM (pVWRI)

71 Blown gasket, for sure. Not sure if heads or block are warped. Will check with a straightedge once the heads are off. What happened: a plastic tee in one of the heater hoses broke, lost all the coolant, and overheated.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 12:06 PM (tkR6S)

My first experience w/a 6 cyl. was very educational..ie; put the head bolts back in the hole they came out of.

Posted by: BignJames at April 29, 2023 12:13 PM (AwYPR)

72 One interesting point from the protest speeches against my friend was that the protest organizers said that the more educated people were (in systems where "equity" ruled and unpopular ideas were banned), the better people they were.

Posted by: KT at April 29, 2023 12:14 PM (rrtZS)

73 So very proud of Daughter #2 of Diogenes who, along with Son In Law #2 are homeschooling the grandkids while they all travel across America. They've been a year on the road now. They're grades are excellent. Both grandkids have caught fish in 8 different states now.
Hat tip to Bluebell for helping me get the homeschooling started during covid.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 29, 2023 12:14 PM (anj39)

74 Tucker could take on a pseudo-name and at least start writing again. I'm hoping that he has good lawyers so he can join the broadcast world again. He should have read the fine print in his present contract.

OR have someone like Newsmax buy out the rest of his contract with Fuxs.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2023 12:06 PM (BdMk6)

Tucker, and Trump, and Musk should pool their resources, and simply buy Cuba from the remnants of the Castro mob. Give the Commie nomenclatura some well-paid do-nothing jobs in the new Administration to keep them out of trouble. Turn Radio Havana into Radio Free America. Elon could launch direct-broadcast satellites to beam Free America Television into the homes of everyone, world-wide.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 12:14 PM (tkR6S)

75 How do you slow or better, stop the crumbling of the West?

*******

And, how can you mend a broken heart?
How can you stop the rain from falling down?
How can you stop the sun from shining?
What makes the world go round?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2023 12:15 PM (ykeLU)

76 Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 12:08 PM (PZvjL)

It also depends on what State you're in. In Kali, some of the non-compete language is non-enforceable, but yes, just about every company I worked for (except when I worked for myself) had non-compete clauses, enforceable or not (with the statement that if any clause does not comport with law, the other clauses are still effective).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:09 PM (ynpvh)

I got a bonus to come here. I could leave anytime I want, but would have to give the bonus back. Otherwise, they have me for two years. Not a big deal in my world, but for someone like Tucker, I would think he could easily opt out of whatever he signed, and no matter how much money he would leave on the table, they couldn't in fact, silence him, if he decides to go anywhere else, and indeed, he's probably NOT going back on teevee.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:15 PM (FbuqU)

77 Anyone that signs a non compete clause is dumb.
You want me to not compete? Beat the other competitor's offer

Except if you refuse, your offer will not be forth coming in many roles. That said, there are a number of gating features around non- competes to ensure the language is not unduly burdensome. By the way, most competitors will ask if you are under a non-compete and will want to review the language prior to offering a role.

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2023 12:15 PM (2UJ+q)

78
The girl that beat Delilah in her class was Best of Breed at the National Specialty today. Delilah had two strikes against her. The judge is a coursing person and we're not a coursing kennel. And Her Majesty is on the national club board and there's a lot of anti-board sentiment right now.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 29, 2023 12:15 PM (MoZTd)

79 She could be the Duke of New York!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:03 PM (ynpvh)

One of my fondest wishes is that AOC gets to run for Mayor of Nuked New York. She's guaranteed to win the Mutant Vote.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2023 12:17 PM (q3gwH)

80 Waiting for my Mac at work to update so I can go home, hoping to beat a storm. Meanwhile, I am stretching at the barre so I would like to take this moment to remind everyone how good it is for your body to adequately and appropriately stretch on the regular.

That was your PSA for the day. 😀

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2023 12:17 PM (2UJ+q)

81 Related: If I'm not mistaken, Capitalism is a term invented by Marx. I don't know why we on the right agree to use it. And currently we see Capitalism captured by totalitarian globalists.
I believe in a Free Market Private Enterprise system and Individual Rights. Is there a term that encompasses that?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 29, 2023 12:17 PM (ojLvW)

82 I don't get the impression he sees himself as being muzzled. Just navigating the legal course with precision and care. I really don't think he let Faux Nooz constrain him, and given that the evidence is that the Murdochs did this with little care, and possibly for personal reasons, I doubt they're going to be able to keep him silent for very long.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:10 PM (FbuqU)

Or perhaps Fux thinks he'll change his tune after three months in Happy Fun Camp.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2023 12:18 PM (BdMk6)

83 Good morning, Horde. Drinking my first coffee of the day. The new terlit gleams in the en-suite a few steps to my left. Its moment of reckoning fast approaches.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 11:57 AM

I'm reminded of a poem.
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights
But the queerest they 'ere did see...

Posted by: Diogenes at April 29, 2023 12:18 PM (anj39)

84 When I got ditched during the riots in a pandemic going into a recession, all engineered by my friends in the public sector, it quickly occurred to me that I might want to work for a competitor because it was a fun and exciting industry and I have a lot of strategically valuable domain knowledge. The first step was to go though all the severance stuff, which came with additional terms over and above the initial employment contract in exchange for a pile of money to not cause trouble on the way out. Then, before signing anything, I hired an attorney and reviewed all this stuff with them before making any decisions about the severance and future employment. Once everything checked out I signed the stuff, and took some time over the summer to decide what I wanted to do (tl,dr: it's time to escape the Midwest, son). Then and only then did I start looking for another job.

So Tucker Carlson is probably going through a similar process, starting with lawyers and ending with some soul searching. Unless he's a total idiot he has more than enough cash on hand to afford short term expenses.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 12:18 PM (PZvjL)

85 Tucker, and Trump, and Musk should pool their resources, and simply buy Cuba from the remnants of the Castro mob. Give the Commie nomenclatura some well-paid do-nothing jobs in the new Administration to keep them out of trouble. Turn Radio Havana into Radio Free America. Elon could launch direct-broadcast satellites to beam Free America Television into the homes of everyone, world-wide.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 12:14 PM (tkR6S)

Best part would be watching the space race, where Coooba defeats the U.S. of A. to various milestones, like colonies on Mars or whatever else Musk has in mind.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:18 PM (FbuqU)

86 I believe in a Free Market Private Enterprise system and Individual Rights. Is there a term that encompasses that?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby
stabamillion at April 29, 2023 12:17 PM (ojLvW)

enemy of the state/people

Posted by: BignJames at April 29, 2023 12:19 PM (AwYPR)

87 85 Tucker, and Trump, and Musk should pool their resources, and simply buy Cuba from the remnants of the Castro mob. Give the Commie nomenclatura some well-paid do-nothing jobs in the new Administration to keep them out of trouble. Turn Radio Havana into Radio Free America. Elon could launch direct-broadcast satellites to beam Free America Television into the homes of everyone, world-wide.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 12:14 PM (tkR6S)

Best part would be watching the space race, where Coooba defeats the U.S. of A. to various milestones, like colonies on Mars or whatever else Musk has in mind.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:18 PM (FbuqU)

Nah, they'd be sabotaged Nordstream style.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

88 Piper, you have a barre at work?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (ojLvW)

89 I believe in a Free Market Private Enterprise system and Individual Rights. Is there a term that encompasses that?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 29, 2023 12:17 PM (ojLvW)

There is... but you might not like it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (FbuqU)

90
My experience with 'no competes' is you pay the person as long as they stay out of the line of business specified. Once they step in you stop paying them.

They may continue to pay Tucker until he steps back into broadcasting again. I doubt they'll sue. They'd have to prove damages. What damages? You're the ones keeping him off the air.

But that's the Legal system America 1.0 - 2.0a beta is a different game perhaps.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (enJYY)

91 89 I believe in a Free Market Private Enterprise system and Individual Rights. Is there a term that encompasses that?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 29, 2023 12:17 PM (ojLvW)

There is... but you might not like it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (FbuqU)

Insurrectionist?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

92
Best part would be watching the space race, where Coooba defeats the U.S. of A. to various milestones, like colonies on Mars or whatever else Musk has in mind.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:18 PM (FbuqU)

___________

Musk invents things to tame reality. Zuckerberg invents things to ignore reality.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 29, 2023 12:21 PM (MoZTd)

93 Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2023 12:05 PM (ykeLU)

And of course other very skilled doctors would agree with you, including Dr. Ben Carson who obviously proved his competen ince. I don't want non competent people being pilots or many other professions because of DEI criteria and I imagine even young doctors who did very well based on merit but who happen to be non white think that people shouldn't be put ahead based on their race or sexual orientation,

When my son was having problems, I took him to a psychiatrist who happened to be a lawyer before he went to medical school. He's also an Orthodox Jew so I imagine he's not all on board with transgenderism. From what I read about Dr. Richard Levine I would never have taken my son to him either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 29, 2023 12:21 PM (Keyt1)

94 Best part would be watching the space race, where Coooba defeats the U.S. of A. to various milestones, like colonies on Mars or whatever else Musk has in mind.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:18 PM (FbuqU)

Nah, they'd be sabotaged Nordstream style.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

This is why Trump stole the nukular secrets. To have deterrence nooks in Coooba.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:21 PM (FbuqU)

95 90
My experience with 'no competes' is you pay the person as long as they stay out of the line of business specified. Once they step in you stop paying them.

They may continue to pay Tucker until he steps back into broadcasting again. I doubt they'll sue. They'd have to prove damages. What damages? You're the ones keeping him off the air.

But that's the Legal system America 1.0 - 2.0a beta is a different game perhaps.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (enJYY)

Yes, with too many Soros prosecutors, Hawaian judges, and far-leftists juries.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:21 PM (ynpvh)

96 How do we fix this? Do this:

https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1651553855077769221

And raise them very carefully, to do the same. When we're having 8:1 kids over the wokies and keep the kids out of government schools, they cannot win.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2023 12:22 PM (0hOvj)

97 I believe in a Free Market Private Enterprise system and Individual Rights. Is there a term that encompasses that?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 29, 2023 12:17 PM (ojLvW)

There is... but you might not like it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (FbuqU)

Insurrectionist?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

Starts with an L.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:22 PM (FbuqU)

98 Tucker, and Trump, and Musk should pool their resources, and simply buy Cuba from the remnants of the Castro mob. Give the Commie nomenclatura some well-paid do-nothing jobs in the new Administration to keep them out of trouble. Turn Radio Havana into Radio Free America. Elon could launch direct-broadcast satellites to beam Free America Television into the homes of everyone, world-wide.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 12:14 PM (tkR6S)

Why not just buy Cuba? Send the communists to CA.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2023 12:22 PM (BdMk6)

99 97 I believe in a Free Market Private Enterprise system and Individual Rights. Is there a term that encompasses that?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 29, 2023 12:17 PM (ojLvW)

There is... but you might not like it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (FbuqU)

Insurrectionist?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

Starts with an L.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:22 PM (FbuqU)

The L word, eh?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:23 PM (ynpvh)

100 88 Piper, you have a barre at work?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 29,
——

I own a barre based work out studio, so I have lots of them! I am doing a plow stretch which feels so amazing on your lower back, but if someone walked in here it would certainly be something with me in that pose on an iPad.

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2023 12:23 PM (2UJ+q)

101 There is... but you might not like it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM

Libertarianism?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 29, 2023 12:24 PM (ojLvW)

102 Slow?

Nothing will stop what is coming, and I'm convinced that the longer it is delayed, the better the odds for the left. They needed to boil frogs and Trump threw a wrench in that. Things are MUCH worse than most of you think.

The level of censorship, institutional theft, political violence (from the .gov and from proxies), electoral fraud, and depraved treatment of our minor children has crossed the line into what justifies war. Each side gets a leg up if they goad the other to overreact first, but only the left wins by default if they wait things out, having control of the levers of power for now.

Posted by: somedood at April 29, 2023 12:24 PM (7rP4D)

103
Why not just buy Cuba? Send the communists to CA.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2023 12:22 PM (BdMk6)

_________

Buy Greenland and send the commies there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 29, 2023 12:24 PM (MoZTd)

104 My first experience w/a 6 cyl. was very educational..ie; put the head bolts back in the hole they came out of.
Posted by: BignJames at April 29, 2023 12:13 PM (AwYPR)

Good insight! I checked. The LT-series 350 in my '99 uses torque-to-yield head bolts that should be replaced every time, but you can replace them with the old-style head bolts that get torqued to 65 ft-lbs.

I am usually pretty careful about keeping track of which bolt goes in which hole.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 12:24 PM (tkR6S)

105 They may continue to pay Tucker until he steps back into broadcasting again. I doubt they'll sue. They'd have to prove damages. What damages? You're the ones keeping him off the air.

----------

If Tucker went on at 8 somewhere other than at Fox and Fox's 8:00 ratings cratered, Fox would claim that loss as its damages.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 29, 2023 12:25 PM (s12c9)

106 102 Slow?

Nothing will stop what is coming, and I'm convinced that the longer it is delayed, the better the odds for the left. They needed to boil frogs and Trump threw a wrench in that. Things are MUCH worse than most of you think.

The level of censorship, institutional theft, political violence (from the .gov and from proxies), electoral fraud, and depraved treatment of our minor children has crossed the line into what justifies war. Each side gets a leg up if they goad the other to overreact first, but only the left wins by default if they wait things out, having control of the levers of power for now.

Posted by: somedood at April 29, 2023 12:24 PM (7rP4D)

The seedy underbelly of the deep state and bureaucratic state along with the alliance with the corporate state and so-called media. Yeah, I should take these sunglasses off now.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:26 PM (ynpvh)

107 103
Why not just buy Cuba? Send the communists to CA.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2023 12:22 PM (BdMk6)

_________

Buy Greenland and send the commies there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 29, 2023 12:24 PM (MoZTd)

They can have a moonbase next to the N*zi's on the darkside.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:26 PM (ynpvh)

108 I would presume Tucker Carlson has intelligent attorneys who have prepared for this eventuality. It's not like Carlson didn't see it coming.

IMO he needs to have independent control of whatever medium(s) he decides to use. Yet, in the end, I'm sure there will be a way to silence Carlson that doesn't involve physical harm. At first.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2023 12:27 PM (Q4IgG)

109 105 They may continue to pay Tucker until he steps back into broadcasting again. I doubt they'll sue. They'd have to prove damages. What damages? You're the ones keeping him off the air.

----------

If Tucker went on at 8 somewhere other than at Fox and Fox's 8:00 ratings cratered, Fox would claim that loss as its damages.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 29, 2023 12:25 PM (s12c9)

Which is why you let Fox crate at that timeslot first...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

110 There is... but you might not like it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM

Libertarianism?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 29, 2023 12:24 PM (ojLvW)

Yes... liberty, being practiced by liberals = libertarianism.

Words get corrupted though.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:27 PM (FbuqU)

111 Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at April 29, 2023 12:28 PM (7+6WS)

Scams and Whore cams.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:28 PM (ynpvh)

112 Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2023 12:05 PM

+1000 on that post

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 29, 2023 12:28 PM (Xrfse)

113 I tend to describe my worldview as nationalist libertarian. No, it's not an oxymoron, that's just the 50 years of greedy, lazy, intellectually dishonest rich people giving the rest a bad name.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 12:29 PM (PZvjL)

114 108 I would presume Tucker Carlson has intelligent attorneys who have prepared for this eventuality. It's not like Carlson didn't see it coming

---------

Seeing over the millenia how seemingly intelligent people did really stupid things, I never assume.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 29, 2023 12:29 PM (s12c9)

115 113 I tend to describe my worldview as nationalist libertarian. No, it's not an oxymoron, that's just the 50 years of greedy, lazy, intellectually dishonest rich people giving the rest a bad name.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 12:29 PM (PZvjL)

Contrast to National Socialist. We've seen what they can do.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:29 PM (ynpvh)

116
Tucker could take on a pseudo-name and at least start writing again. I'm hoping that he has good lawyers so he can join the broadcast world again. He should have read the fine print in his present contract.

good evening, this Peter Tucker

Chatsworth Osborne, Jr.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 29, 2023 12:30 PM (63Dwl)

117 There is... but you might not like it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (FbuqU)

Insurrectionist?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

Starts with an L.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:22 PM (FbuqU)

Lesbian?

Posted by: Just guessing at April 29, 2023 12:30 PM (pLSJi)

118 Starts with an L.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:22 PM (FbuqU)

Lesbian?
Posted by: Just guessing at April 29, 2023 12:30 PM (pLSJi)

----------

Lapidarian

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 29, 2023 12:33 PM (s12c9)

119 Insurrectionist?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Starts with an L.
Posted by: BurtTC

l'insurrectioniste?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2023 12:33 PM (0hOvj)

120 Chatsworth Osborne, Jr.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 29, 2023 12:30 PM (63Dwl)

LOL. Yes!

Bless Rush (PBUH).

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2023 12:34 PM (BdMk6)

121 118 Starts with an L.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:22 PM (FbuqU)

Buckaroo Banzai?

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 29, 2023 12:35 PM (wSLCK)

122 Picture a Venn Diagram of individuals with Authoritarianism, Dunning-Kruger, and Government.
Where the three overlap this is Democide. A near perfect circle due to the nature of individuals who would seek government.
The beauty is that the DK element ensures those doing the killing may actually believe it was a choice that those against the wall chose freely.
Thus they never stop until they themselves killed or take to ground when enough of their fellow travelers get killed.

History rhymes.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 29, 2023 12:35 PM (XXqw8)

123 LIBERTARIANISM IN ONE COUNTRY

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 29, 2023 12:36 PM (wSLCK)

124 Good morning, K.T. and horde, nothing nice planned here, just a quiet weekend at the casa. Good information there, but a small correction, the Repthuglicans will never figure it out on the institutional level, they are the same as the Demonrats, because the System is all they care about.

Posted by: Grog at April 29, 2023 12:36 PM (esAC9)

125 There is... but you might not like it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (FbuqU)

Insurrectionist?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

Starts with an L.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:22 PM (FbuqU)

Lesbian?
Posted by: Just guessing at April 29, 2023 12:30 PM (pLSJi)

Lilliputian?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2023 12:37 PM (BdMk6)

126 Tim Dillon, talking about the Uber Eats driver who was butchered by an MS13 fella... "How late was the delivery?"

https://tinyurl.com/4a76u9cf

I almost pooped my pants laughing.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:37 PM (OjJHj)

127 Thinking of a 15 minute nap.

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2023 12:37 PM (xhxe8)

128 Of course they don't like you sleeping here

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2023 12:38 PM (xhxe8)

129 l'insurrectioniste?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2023 12:33 PM (0hOvj)

NO FRENCH!!!

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:38 PM (OjJHj)

130 128 Of course they don't like you sleeping here
Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2023 12:38 PM (xhxe

----------

You're not an air traffic controller, I hope.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 29, 2023 12:39 PM (s12c9)

131 "She could be the Duke of New York!"

The Duchess. I think it fits.

Posted by: RM at April 29, 2023 12:39 PM (crXU+)

132 You're not an air traffic controller, I hope.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 29, 2023 12:39 PM (s12c9)

Bus driver.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 29, 2023 12:41 PM (OjJHj)

133 115 Contrast to National Socialist. We've seen what they can do.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:29 PM (ynpvh)

That's an easy one--it was driven by the socialism, not the nationalism. National socialists and international socialists aka commies were functionally equivalent because of the underlying collectivist dogma that everyone and everything is expendable for the sake of The Cause.

A nationalist-libertarian government would be like if Switzerland and The Netherlands had a baby. Probably pretty weird kid, but well capable of defending itself, lots of pride in its achievements but not interested in imperialistic aggression, and what government power there is mostly devolved to the lower levels of the system. I'm told that one of the Swiss cantons still practices a form of voting where you present your sword as proof of citizenship because everyone's militia in Switzerland. Sounds awesome.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 12:42 PM (PZvjL)

134 122 Picture a Venn Diagram of individuals with Authoritarianism, Dunning-Kruger, and Government.
Where the three overlap this is Democide. A near perfect circle due to the nature of individuals who would seek government.
The beauty is that the DK element ensures those doing the killing may actually believe it was a choice that those against the wall chose freely.
Thus they never stop until they themselves killed or take to ground when enough of their fellow travelers get killed.

History rhymes.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 29, 2023 12:35 PM (XXqw

Damn. I was arguing with my BIL a year or two ago about COVID mandates and how folks were losing their jobs by not getting vaxxed. His response? "They had free will to choose so if they lost their jobs it was their choice".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 29, 2023 12:43 PM (ynpvh)

135 Rod Tucker, your crack investigator

Posted by: REDACTED at April 29, 2023 12:43 PM (us2H3)

136 Force people into social security.
Force people into patriot act.
Force people into ubamacare.
Force people into chynaflu shots.
- Communism, forcing people into stuff they woult not volunteer for.
- For over 100 years.

Posted by: Eromero at April 29, 2023 12:44 PM (z3WCn)

137 my boss unlocked the liquor cabinet

Posted by: REDACTED at April 29, 2023 12:45 PM (us2H3)

138 Tuck 182 > Turk 182

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 29, 2023 12:45 PM (R/m4+)

139 It's been too long since we recited this. H/T AllenG...

Burn ir down.
Scarrer the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: creeper at April 29, 2023 12:46 PM (cTCuP)

140 Well, it turns out the LT engine in my 'burb uses those damned torque-to-yield bolts. A PITA, but I guess they are better, for some definitions of "better". Anyway, Amazon has them, and for 40 bucks, they will be in my hands tomorrow, which is about the earliest I could possibly need them. And if I don't have a torque-angle gauge here, I can borrow one.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 12:46 PM (tkR6S)

141 *sigh*

And that was after proofreading it carefully.

Posted by: creeper at April 29, 2023 12:47 PM (cTCuP)

142 Maybe they will let us have one more pretend election.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 29, 2023 12:47 PM (XXqw8)

143 Oh, I think I gave you a hint. Google me and 'lawyers'. Posted by: Wm. Shakespeare

You planning to Butcher all the Dicks?

I think that is a pretty good snapshot of just where our supposed culture is now. You have no idea in the world of what Shakespeare was saying with that line. You found it in a "Familiar Quotations" anthology. You've never even read the Classics Illustrated.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 29, 2023 12:48 PM (jYCXf)

144 We each have the ability to influence someone younger.

What is happening has happened before.

One example from 1607 years ago:

In the Peloponnesian War, Athenians sent emissaries to negotiate with the rulers of the neutral island of Melos. The emissaries demanded that Melos join the Delian League and pay tribute to Athens or face destruction; "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must".
The Melians rejected the ultimatum.

After a siege and a fight, the Athenians executed the adult men and sold the women and children into slavery.
In the negotiations, the Athenians offered no moral justification for their invasion, but instead bluntly told the Melians that Athens needed Melos for its own ends and that the only thing Melians stood to gain in submitting without a fight was self-preservation.

It is taught as a classic case study in political realism to illustrate that selfish and pragmatic concerns motivate a country at war.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 12:49 PM (u82oZ)

145 Ah, no rest for the weary

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2023 12:51 PM (xhxe8)

146 Also, this totalitarianism we are seeing has failed every time it was used since the Commune in Paris, so 152 years of failure.

Foreknowledge is forearmed.

Thank you for this topic, K. T. Quite timely.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 12:51 PM (u82oZ)

147 It is taught as a classic case study in political realism to illustrate that selfish and pragmatic concerns motivate a country at war.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 12:49 PM (u82oZ)

Pushed hard enough and the neoliberal and necon always always respond:

"It's always been like this you rube. You naive little man. What took you so long?"

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 29, 2023 12:52 PM (wSLCK)

148 I love to use the Melos example to illustrate that the Greek wars were much more complex than Spartan military tyranny vs. Precious Athenian Democracy, as often related by 20th century academics and their history textbooks.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 12:52 PM (PZvjL)

149 > my boss unlocked the liquor cabinet
__________

I've often wondered about "locked" liquor cabinets. My parents had a bar in the rec room. It did not lock. We got into the booze periodically and tried to cover our tracks by mixing the various booze to the previous level. Not a good idea.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 29, 2023 12:54 PM (Q4IgG)

150 Auron MacIntyre is a much clearer thinker and communicator than Lindsey -- there's a reason he has a handful of tweets that have become memes.

https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre

https://auronmacintyre.substack.com/ (free)

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2023 12:54 PM (EdLEa)

151 Yes. People who just want to live and let live will always have to deal with people who want to intrude on the lives of others.

Posted by: Emmie at April 29, 2023 12:55 PM (Emce2)

152 One example from 1607 years ago:
In the Peloponnesian War

-
I know math is banned but the Peloponnesian War was in the 5th century BC so more like 2500 years ago.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 29, 2023 12:55 PM (FVME7)

153 that top picture is horrid.

Posted by: Infidel at April 29, 2023 12:56 PM (/0+YE)

154 I regret yo inform you that David French is at it again.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 29, 2023 12:57 PM (wSLCK)

155 My thinking is that the delayed gratification folks will be all right. Oner way it can go, which is not my preferred option: Society will be atomized as normal people are removed from power, commenting, or even speaking.

The normals among us are the damping rods in a nuclear reactor. Remove us, and things go boom.

However, the will to power will bring ruthless people to the front, and their first choice of victims will be those inside the power structure that can threaten them. The blood will flow.

Then, the illegals and Islamics will fight the power, as the promises to passivate them are not kept. The money runs out. Again, we can avoid this, not being in power. Just keeping to ourselves is protective.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 12:57 PM (u82oZ)

156 >>> 136 Force people into social security.
Force people into patriot act.
Force people into ubamacare.
Force people into chynaflu shots.
- Communism, forcing people into stuff they woult not volunteer for.
- For over 100 years.
Posted by: Eromero at April 29, 2023 12:44 PM (z3WCn)

Right, it isn't like the BS is *recent*, it's only been recently far more *aggressive* because they think they're thisclose to commie-heaven-on-earth.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 29, 2023 12:57 PM (llON8)

157 Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

You are correct, sir. The finger that got it wrong has been punished.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 12:58 PM (u82oZ)

158 >>. . . If you've been given an opportunity but have not attained competence or better yet, excellence, I don't want you operating on my heart valve.

That is frightening, Muldoon.
Paging Ayn Rand, you unintentionally wrote a handbook.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2023 12:58 PM (EdLEa)

159 Coercion only works on those that are coercible (is that a word?).

An employer once told me "No one is irreplaceable" during a discussion over workplace matters.

My reply was "Yes, you better consider that. I was looking for a job when I found this one."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 29, 2023 12:59 PM (IXlsO)

160 creeper

I hope you are doing well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 01:00 PM (u82oZ)

161 Hans Theessink - St. James Infirmary

https://is.gd/yzd7Ma

Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2023 01:02 PM (ykeLU)

162 >>Yes. People who just want to live and let live will always have to deal with people who want to intrude on the lives of others.

Just look at the trajectory of SSM.
In 2012 we were mocked for expressing concern that, no, it wasn't just about love, it was about using it to destroy the family and attack Christian churches/institutions.

In 2023 we have teachers and social media actively grooming our kids in secret to be some flavor of LGBTQ, and if you dare attempt to protect them from it they are enacting laws allowing legal removal/taking them out of state for medical treatment.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 29, 2023 01:02 PM (EdLEa)

163 Howdy Hordelings. Margins are wide in here. Someone musta dropped a girthy link

Posted by: Doof at April 29, 2023 01:02 PM (yUjc0)

164 Anonosaurus Wrecks,

2439 years. Sometimes we got better. Other times it was "Bad Luck."

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 01:03 PM (u82oZ)

165 Mao was a pedo and mass murderer. Coincidence?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 29, 2023 01:04 PM (XXqw8)

166 159 Coercion only works on those that are coercible (is that a word?).
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 29, 2023 12:59 PM (IXlsO)

My current corporate frenz have been pretty good to me thus far . I figure one of the big reasons for that is that they know that I'm unmarried, not tied to an expensive house, and moved from MN to TN on my own time and my own dime while unemployed because I wanted to. I give them good work because I'm a professional and I care, but at the end of the day if they wanna ditch me it's gonna hurt them more than it does me.

Also, there's a little bit of an engineer shortage right now.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 01:05 PM (PZvjL)

167 Helena Handbasket

You have the answer. A life well-lived, and chickens!

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 01:05 PM (u82oZ)

168 AssOC is the poster child of why the federal government should be abolished.

She should have Fetterman’s love child.

A lump and a baby bump.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 29, 2023 01:07 PM (R/m4+)

169 Hans Theessink - St. James Infirmary

https://is.gd/yzd7Ma
Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2023 01:02 PM (ykeLU)

Good choice, Muldoon! Hans is a fine musician, and great exemplar of the fact that the blues, a uniquely American musical form, has captured the imagination of musicians world wide.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 01:08 PM (tkR6S)

170 Howdy, Doof!

Posted by: Emmie at April 29, 2023 01:08 PM (Emce2)

171 We rejected a merit standard in music and got Lizzo.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 29, 2023 01:08 PM (FVME7)

172 Helena Handbasket

You have the answer. A life well-lived, and chickens!
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 01:05 PM (u82oZ)

If there's chickens, there's also cats and dogs. Life can't get much better than that.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 29, 2023 01:09 PM (BdMk6)

173 Nice to see my favorite people here this morning! Unfortunately, soon I must tackle a chore.

Posted by: Emmie at April 29, 2023 01:10 PM (Emce2)

174 173 I mean "unfortunately" because chores interfere with my hanging out here.

Posted by: Emmie at April 29, 2023 01:10 PM (Emce2)

175 {{{Emmie}}}

And a respectful tip of the hat to your stalwart Bassman.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 01:11 PM (u82oZ)

176 Once long ago in a job far away, I fancied myself as "irreplaceable". To my chagrin, I was laid off ostensibly because my salary (and that of others) was impacting the corporate bottom line. I learned later that my "replacement" turned out to be a total disaster. Oh, well...

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 29, 2023 01:12 PM (Xrfse)

177 Islamic as a group are actually quite weak - they have no initiative, and their religion and culture make the great majority incapable of independent thought. Now this does make them the perfect tools for more powerful leaders who need compliant cannon fodder, but thats all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2023 01:12 PM (e7n2t)

178 Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Maybe. She is quite private, and has only shared about chickens.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 01:12 PM (u82oZ)

179 At some point they need to be expelled by any means from Western Civilization.

Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at April 29, 2023 01:12 PM (dFG8E)

180 Hans is a fine musician, and great exemplar of the fact that the blues, a uniquely American musical form, has captured the imagination of musicians world wide.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

*******

Yep. He's not well known in the U.S. outside of blues circles. I would rate him as in the top 10 of blues guitarists. Find his EweTlube version of Poor Wayfaring Stranger for a good listen.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2023 01:13 PM (ykeLU)

181 And for a very different take on St. James Infirmary, here is James Booker, who was a hella fine piano player:

https://youtu.be/bFRKcW_s6YQ

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 01:14 PM (tkR6S)

182 Tom Servo

Good afternoon. They are Cannon Fodder against the Trans Brigade. And anti-Christian and Anti-Jew. So, useful to the corridors of power.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 01:14 PM (u82oZ)

183 my boss stares a hole thru her watch if I drink before noon

Posted by: REDACTED at April 29, 2023 01:15 PM (us2H3)

184 177 Islamic as a group are actually quite weak - they have no initiative, and their religion and culture make the great majority incapable of independent thought. Now this does make them the perfect tools for more powerful leaders who need compliant cannon fodder, but thats all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2023 01:12 PM (e7n2t)

Yeah--they're basically where the medieval Christians were, feudalism all day errday, except their version of a reformation went sideways and doubled down on the feudalism. Turkey might try to put the band back together, maybe, but a world where the muzzles are the last ones standing will just languish in economic and cultural stagnation for another thousand years or so.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 01:16 PM (PZvjL)

185 Hans Theessink

-
His music has everything including the kitchen sink.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 29, 2023 01:16 PM (FVME7)

186 REDACTED

5 O'Clock somewhere?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 01:16 PM (u82oZ)

187 CppThis

The ratio of Israeli Patents to the Patents of all 57 Islamic nations is a very, very, big number.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 01:18 PM (u82oZ)

188 In 25 years AOC will be known as the Butcher of the Bronx.

Posted by: NL at April 29, 2023 01:18 PM (eGTCV)

189 Okay, we're doing St. James Infirmary? Here's one of my favorite Greek jazz / blues bands. Okay, they're probably the only Greek jazz / blues band. The singer is easy on the eyes, even if she sometimes messes up the lyrics.

https://tinyurl.com/324dhrec

Posted by: Archimedes at April 29, 2023 01:20 PM (eOEVl)

190 5 O'Clock somewhere?
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 01:16 PM (u82oZ)

shiat,

I'm on my second nap at 5 pm

Posted by: REDACTED at April 29, 2023 01:20 PM (us2H3)

191 Howdy, Doof!
Posted by: Emmie at April 29, 2023 01:08 PM (Emce2)

Hello, Emmie!

Posted by: Doof at April 29, 2023 01:20 PM (yUjc0)

192 NL

In 25 years AOC can smooth out the wrinkles in her face by removing her bra. But her kneecaps will be damaged.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 29, 2023 01:20 PM (u82oZ)

193 GARDEN NOOD IS BLOOMING

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2023 01:22 PM (xhxe8)

194
Tuck 182 > Turk 182
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

The Young Tucks

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 29, 2023 01:24 PM (63Dwl)

195 And for a very different take on St. James Infirmary, here is James Booker, who was a hella fine piano player:
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

*******

That IS different. The piano playing is more jazzy than blues IMHO. His voice reminds me of Billie Holliday. I'm not much for piano solos.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2023 01:24 PM (ykeLU)

196 Collin Street Bakery produces between 15-20K fruitcakes every day

Posted by: REDACTED at April 29, 2023 01:24 PM (us2H3)

197 I had a poor Christian high school education also. I wish i had been smart enough to transfer. One teacher, the head pf discipline, spent classyome patrolling the csmpus to catch kids smoking. A other teacher just seemed to view traching class as a joke. (Both were priests). One science class offered (chemistry).

And like all morons, I was above average IQ. What a wasre.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 29, 2023 01:25 PM (Y4kHq)

198 people like to hold out on the Spanish Civil War, but the more important thing is to ask both what led to the cultural and political turmoil that led to the coups, counter-coups and rebellions, and what made the Republic's purge the final trigger instead of the most recent abuse?

The first part has to do with the final collapse of the Spanish Empire in the Spanish American War after most of a century of posing by a fairly incompetent and insular ruling class and a great feeling of oppression by the working classes and the farming classes because the economy and technology was not allowed to change since it would affect those who profited from the current world.

If you go to Youtube and look up traditional rope making for both Sweden and Spain, you can get the idea of what Spain was like. Sweden has a giant indoors ropewalk with complicated equipment to make multistrand hawsers for ships out of flax yarn. The Spanish one has three peasants with wooden equipment with the main guy with tow wrapped around his waist like he was in a deBrugge painting from the 15th century - And the Spanish navy used that sort of hawser up until they went to all iron hulled ships

Posted by: Kindltot at April 29, 2023 01:25 PM (xhaym)

199 Fun fact about the Ottoman Turks, they considered themselves to be a continuation of the Roman Empire and conducted themselves accordingly. One of the causes of religious warfare in the later medieval era was a series of nastygrams sent between sultans and popes, and various Ottoman and HRE warlords, over which one gets to be the One True Rome.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 01:25 PM (PZvjL)

200 Okay, we're doing St. James Infirmary? Here's one of my favorite Greek jazz / blues bands. Okay, they're probably the only Greek jazz / blues band. The singer is easy on the eyes, even if she sometimes messes up the lyrics.

https://tinyurl.com/324dhrec
Posted by: Archimedes at April 29, 2023 01:20 PM (eOEVl)

Heh! That was OK. They sound like a decent bar band. Good entertainment if you there at the bar. And the singer is hawt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 29, 2023 01:27 PM (tkR6S)

201 >>> 196 Collin Street Bakery produces between 15-20K fruitcakes every day

Posted by: REDACTED at April 29, 2023 01:24 PM (us2H3)

I know they make a lot, but per *DAY*?? I think you meant year.

Now if you're talking about fruit production...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 29, 2023 01:30 PM (llON8)

202 Okay, we're doing St. James Infirmary? Here's one of my favorite Greek jazz / blues bands.

********

From the intro I expected them to break out in "Minnie the Moocher"!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2023 01:31 PM (ykeLU)

203 Collin Street Bakery produces between 15-20K fruitcakes every day

That should be considered a crime.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 29, 2023 01:32 PM (Xrfse)

204 Collin Street Bakery produces between 15-20K fruitcakes every day

********

You misspelled Folsom Street Fair.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 29, 2023 01:33 PM (ykeLU)

205 Fox's Harvey Wallbanger's show at 9pm falls 50 percent in viewership. LOL

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 29, 2023 01:36 PM (N5C4b)

206 Fox's Harvey Wallbanger's show at 9pm falls 50 percent in viewership. LOL
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 29, 2023 01:36 PM (N5C4b)

Better order up some flags and eagles, stat!

Posted by: JoeF. at April 29, 2023 01:43 PM (mR6Gs)

207 >>>Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers

They look like they're having so much fun.

Posted by: m at April 29, 2023 01:44 PM (kPGhu)

208 I cannot confirm this is a well crafted study or how scientific / representative it is, but the study claims that 70% of female -> male trannies and 80% of male -> female are homosexual.

I do know that this fits what I have seen, and have noticed in discussions with people. Lesbians are complaining that there are no butch lesbians around any more, they all got a "sex change" to be in the body "they should have been born with."

And a very high percentage are autistic, according to the same study, but I'm skeptical of that because of the extremely overbroad way autism has been defined lately.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2023 01:47 PM (0hOvj)

209 Also if you examine the trend toward tranny and LGBQWERTY stuff in zoomers, you can see that certain counties have a MUCH higher percentage than others, which closely correlates with the kind of schools etc in that area.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2023 01:50 PM (0hOvj)

210 Also if you examine the trend toward tranny and LGBQWERTY stuff in zoomers, you can see that certain counties have a MUCH higher percentage than others, which closely correlates with the kind of schools etc in that area.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 29, 2023 01:50 PM

Wait....you mean thet *weren't* born that way? /s

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 29, 2023 01:55 PM (Wnv9h)

211 In my experience there are two types of gays: those doing it for the hawt sex and those doing it to get revenge on society. The second group causes the first group a lot of grief but they're too wrapped up in class politics to ditch the toxic ones. Transgender is gonna be hugely appealing to the second group, and the results speak for themselves.

Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 02:06 PM (PZvjL)

212 I won't even pretend to try and understand this tranny explosion we are experiencing. I just know that something is terribly, terribly wrong with our society.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 29, 2023 02:06 PM (Xrfse)

213 Liberty and self-government are my desires even when I make the wrong choices.

A poor policy freely chosen is better than a perfect policy imposed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 29, 2023 02:07 PM (aD39U)

214 Wonder if the Boy Scouts are going to change 'merit badges' to 'equity badges'?

Posted by: KT at April 29, 2023 02:09 PM (rrtZS)

215 Relating to the 'title' of the first 'blog' above...'How do we slow the crumbling of Western civilization', the answer is simple...Get rid of the crumbs!

Posted by: Flywheel at April 29, 2023 02:15 PM (OyBGA)

216 Wonder if the Boy Scouts are going to change 'merit badges' to 'equity badges'?

Well, the Scouts were infiltrated and compromised a while back, so that would come as no surprise.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 29, 2023 02:16 PM (Xrfse)

217 Re the Steve Martin clip, what music genre is that?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2023 02:20 PM (BejKb)

218 Keep saying haven't ran into a Trannie yet

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2023 02:21 PM (xhxe8)

219 I for one can't wait to see the Republican Party marched to the guillotine. The party of "that's not who we are," has sat back and watched as their supposed good friends across the aisle set fire to all civility, decorum, decency, respect for the law and yet DID NOTHING and still DO NOTHING to stop it.
So G.O.P., you did everything you could to placate the Left. You let them run the education system. You let them run the EPA. You confirmed nearly all their judges and ceeded them the courts. You defied the pleas of your own voters and stood by while they tore down the nation's culture. Then you stood by in dead silence while a huge national election was stolen and told your voters to suck it, there was not a thing you would do to fight it.
Now look where we are.
It will be a night to behold, when you flee the torchlit procession bearing down on you and start banging on my door, begging me to hide you. And I will laugh at you and give you over to that mob, the exact same way you laughed at me when you gave our once beautiful country away to the exact same mob.
I'm stocking up on popcorn for that night. Can't wait!

Posted by: Tracy at April 29, 2023 02:25 PM (KizG8)

220 >>>@84 Tucker Carlson is probably going through a similar process, starting with lawyers and ending with some soul searching. Unless he's a total idiot he has more than enough cash on hand to afford short term expenses. Posted by: CppThis at April 29, 2023 12:18 PM (PZvjL)
==============
Tucker Carlson is said to have been worth $30 million when he and Fox parted ways ... The residence he had owned in the Washington DC area (which I think he sold) was worth over $3 million ... The Florida residence I believe he still owns is valued at more than $5 million ... I think he'll be financially okay taking his time to carefully map out his future.

Posted by: Kathy at April 29, 2023 02:31 PM (JklXp)

221 "Islamic as a group are actually quite weak - they have no initiative, and their religion and culture make the great majority incapable of independent thought."

I heard it referred to as Islamic Statism and Islamic Aryanism.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 29, 2023 02:35 PM (5u1+1)

222 Alternate AOC picture caption:

A BIG RACK WORKS
Even if you are dumb as a sack of rocks
So THERE

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 29, 2023 02:39 PM (AcLxR)

223 From what I can determine from pictures, A O-C does not have a particularly big rack. What she does have it a big mouth,-bleating out all the talking points of the left, and whoever does her media is very good at getting her face and opinions out there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 29, 2023 02:48 PM (Keyt1)

224 Hot sex is not necessarily the same as lots of sexual partners. Gay men-as a whole -have more partners than many straight men.-and they also end up with HIV/Aids. I'm not sure the trade off is worth it, but I'm not a gay man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 29, 2023 02:53 PM (Keyt1)

225 Fock these cretin Leftist whores and bastards. . . . . right in the Clinton dirt chute. . . . . all the way, with a red hot poker. . . . and let the dogs and the rains take away what's left. (did you see what I did there?)

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Harlots and RINO cucks at April 29, 2023 02:55 PM (5uy7A)

226 Slivers of light:

@LeadingReport 43m
BREAKING: Federal judge has blocked Illinois “assault weapons” ban.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 29, 2023 02:56 PM (jzzG8)

227
Lady YD and me only put Cocomelon on the family YT, and we always skip the ads. So the first time I skipped this ad, I thought it must surely be a mistake. It was a *2 hour* ad for the US Army, featuring a bunch of old soldiers lecturing new recruits about how great the Army is.

People who only watch Cocomelon are two kinds of people: toddlers who can't even understand ads, and their parents. Toddlers can't join the Army, and parents have something more important to die for than this regime.

So, after the third it timed it popped up on Cocomelon, I finally figured it out... these lengthy harangues are being targeted at the older siblings/cousins of these youngsters, who are tired of baby cartoons, and willing to watch anything else. For hours. Their parents aren't watching watch they watch, and skipping over the ads.

They're the ones who will soon be able to do it, but don't have the knowledge and experience to know better than to lay it on the line for some big guy's 10%. Sad. Repulsive, even.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2023 03:06 PM (oINRc)

228 BREAKING: Federal judge has blocked Illinois “assault weapons” ban.

A small reprieve, I suppose.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 29, 2023 03:08 PM (Xrfse)

229 Ahhhhhggghh, don't remind me about torque values!

My idiot cat, Orange, climbed up into the engine compartment of my 2013 Toyota Avalon and got his sorry ass *completely* wedged in. No amount of rearranging his legs, twisting, etc. would free him. Ultimately, I had to remove the engine torque mount to make enough space to get him out.

So what's the problem? Every webpage I've found gives torque values for the engine mounts at the base of the engine but not the torque mount on the upper left side. What to do?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 29, 2023 03:14 PM (ZSK0i)

230 To clarify, I understand that militaries always spit propaganda at "kids." But we're usually talking about fifteen or sixteen year olds. These are being placed on Cocomelon for kids probably half that age. Junior, while he's watching Baby.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2023 03:15 PM (oINRc)

231 PET NOOD

Posted by: Skip at April 29, 2023 03:17 PM (xhxe8)

232 TRUMP 2034 !!!

Posted by: Paul at April 29, 2023 03:19 PM (OHz8B)

233 Been following (very little) the NFL draft. Green Bay just selected a Dontayvian Wicks. Some serious creativity goin' on with the first names. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 29, 2023 03:19 PM (Xrfse)

234 Been following (very little) the NFL draft. Green Bay just selected a Dontayvian Wicks. Some serious creativity goin' on with the first names. Heh.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 29, 2023 03:19

I have 3 black kids... 2 with weird names, from their biological father. But they're both *real* names, that other people in the world have.

I'm so glad none of mine have a wacky American black name like Larmondo or something. I think it's a huge impediment. My own name is sort of a weird Jewish name, because the whole thing is very biblical, and that raises enough eyebrows.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 29, 2023 03:29 PM (oINRc)

235 Biden 2034!

I only said that, Paul, because yours was an egregiously stupid troll. Neither man will be running then.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 29, 2023 03:31 PM (PWPnu)

236 I'm sort of jealous. I have a hunch that my folks didn't give too much thought in the naming process for me. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 29, 2023 03:37 PM (Xrfse)

237 " My own name is sort of a weird Jewish name, because the whole thing is very biblical,"

The funniest "Family Feud" I ever saw had "Biblical names the people name their children."

So, one family is Jewish and they come out with "Abraham, Joshua, Issac, Jacob, David"

They lost. The other family won with "James, John, Paul, Peter, etc.

You maybe should read the New Testament just so you know what you are dealing with.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 29, 2023 03:47 PM (5u1+1)

238 YD can be thankful his parents probably didn’t name him Habakkuk or if he were a Christian- Theophilus.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 29, 2023 03:50 PM (ej+nE)

239 Almost named my girl Bathsheba but Mom gave me shiite about it. Mom didn't know offhand why but knew it was not a "good" name.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 29, 2023 04:38 PM (0N45g)

240 "And the Children will save us"
-Little Oktobrists
-Young Pioneers
-Komsomol
Hitler Jugund
Bund Deutches Mädchen

Posted by: Fox 2! at April 29, 2023 04:41 PM (Aw7iX)

241 That should be

Bund Deutscher Mädel

Posted by: Fox 2! at April 29, 2023 04:48 PM (Aw7iX)

242 pssst... Hitlerjugend

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 29, 2023 04:50 PM (ZSK0i)

243 Wow, Fox is in a PANIC. They hired a Black Libertarian to replace Tucker... thinking they can control him...

and are now asking tougher question in White House Pressers...

Panic... they know they lost a LOT of their 'audience'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 29, 2023 07:20 PM (oHd/0)

244 The educrats need to just how perpetuating an education system from a no longer existing European region but hurt from a defeat 220 years ago is so untouchable. One way to halt the decline is to defund public schools and mandate school choice. Give parents skin in the game to choose. If public schools are so awesome, they'll continue;if not they'll close. Next, is to expel and permanently disqualify law enforcement and jutisice officials endangering public safety. And finally for now, arrest the drag queens and all organizers of any lewd performances targeting kids.

Posted by: Xavier Basora at April 30, 2023 07:56 AM (KxIdS)

Processing 0.04, elapsed 0.0544 seconds.
14 queries taking 0.02 seconds, 252 records returned.
Page size 156 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.